Today on Killtoberfest 2, the last entries in two long-running horror franchises. For the last three years, I’ve worked into my horror marathons a complete watching of one particular series. The first year it was The Grudge; the second, I chose two, doing roughly half …

Happy Halloween, everyone! Today on Killtoberfest 2, a pair of psychological horror films in which young people realize that nothing is what it seems. First up, Hellraiser VIII: Hellworld (2005). My opinion on this movie reversed direction every five minutes. Calling it “uneven” would be …

Next up on Killtoberfest 2, uhh… here are a couple of movies. First, Hellraiser VII: Deader (2005), the third DTV Hellraiser. It is surprisingly not awful. I’ve gone over before the problems with the previous two DTV Hellraisers, and I admit that at this point …

Let’s talk about sin. In life, at least for godless atheists like me, it’s completely irrelevant. (I evaluate the morality of my actions, but I rarely feel the kind of guilt I associate with sin–sticky, cloying guilt that refuses to leave you.) But in film …

Today’s Killtoberfest entry is the last Hellraiser movie I watched this year, Hellraiser V: Inferno. One side of the concept for this movie, how it interacts with the Hellraiser mythology, I completely understand why they would go in that direction. It makes sense and it’s not a bad idea. …